The game has started, see further down in the thread for details
As some may or may not know, I've been screwing around with alternative games we might play, trying to find ones that seem like they'd work for our forum. Anyway, this is the first attempt, borrowed from Mafiascum's The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash Forum, its a quickie, game rounds for this trial will go for 48 hours each, and the number of rounds should be one less than the number of players who sign on, very small time commitment. This seemed an appropriate choice for a first attempt since it's very easy and requires little involvement thus won't step on any other games going on currently.
Rules
You start off with 1000 coins
Every round you NB me how many you want to spend
If you submit the lowest, you're out
If you submit the second lowest, you get all coins you spent back that round
If you fail to submit coins, you will receive a strike and a random submission. If you fail to submit again, you will be eliminated.
If a tie occurs for lowest, both are eliminated, if tied for second, both get refunded, otherwise ties don't matter
Last man standing wins!
So here's how this will work, for the trial, we'll do registration for a couple days. Then Play begins, everyone NBs me their value, and when everyone submits or 48 hours pass, the round ends, and I post what everyone bid, what their new totals are, and who got eliminated. Those who don't submit will automatically bid a random number 1-1000, or 1 to their remaining total on subsequent days. I'll probably use invisible castle for generating that value if someone skips.
Example of play - John, Bob, Larry, Susan, Jessie
Round 1
Players have 1000 coins, and NB their bid.
John - 17
Bob - 154
Larry - 209
Susan - 101
Jessie - 235
John bid lowest, and is eliminated. Susan bid second lowest and gets to keep her coins
John
Bob - 846
Larry - 791
Susan - 1000
Jessie - 765
Round 2 starts, players send in bids
Bob - 300
Larry - 201
Susan - 99
Jessie - 205
This time, Susan risked too low a bid, and gets eliminated, and Larry comes in second, and keeps his cash
Round 2 tallies
John
Bob - 546
Larry - 791
Susan
Jessie - 560
Round 3
Going into this one, Larry knows he can get away with spending more than Bob or Jessie, so he wagers pretty high
Bob - 335
Larry - 400
Jessie - 364
So Bob is out
Bob
Larry - 291
Jessie - 560
On Round 4, Jessie knows she can bid any number higher than 291 and win, so the game ends, Jessie is the winner.
Basic strategy then is if you spend to little your out, but you want to spend as little as possible so you have it to bid on later days and if you hit second place you gain the advantage of keeping your money. Not a deep strategy or heavy posting game, but it goes quick, and might work well as a companion to our other games, since you could probably knock out a 5-7 players game during registration phase for a mafia game or a night phase, etc. Very little posting involved, pretty straightforward, minimal time commitment for all involved.
Okay, who wants to give this a try? Probably aim to startWednesday night Early Thursday, I'd considered allowing day 1 bids immediately on joining as a way of speeding things up but I think number of players in the game would have to logically effect initial bidding strategy.
Players - 8
Hobo
Fox and Ravens
Kronin al'Sulc
Beetnemesis
?
Amys
LadyLorraine
Ranagrande
As some may or may not know, I've been screwing around with alternative games we might play, trying to find ones that seem like they'd work for our forum. Anyway, this is the first attempt, borrowed from Mafiascum's The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash Forum, its a quickie, game rounds for this trial will go for 48 hours each, and the number of rounds should be one less than the number of players who sign on, very small time commitment. This seemed an appropriate choice for a first attempt since it's very easy and requires little involvement thus won't step on any other games going on currently.
Rules
So here's how this will work, for the trial, we'll do registration for a couple days. Then Play begins, everyone NBs me their value, and when everyone submits or 48 hours pass, the round ends, and I post what everyone bid, what their new totals are, and who got eliminated. Those who don't submit will automatically bid a random number 1-1000, or 1 to their remaining total on subsequent days. I'll probably use invisible castle for generating that value if someone skips.
Example of play - John, Bob, Larry, Susan, Jessie
Round 1
Players have 1000 coins, and NB their bid.
John - 17
Bob - 154
Larry - 209
Susan - 101
Jessie - 235
John bid lowest, and is eliminated. Susan bid second lowest and gets to keep her coins
Bob - 846
Larry - 791
Susan - 1000
Jessie - 765
Round 2 starts, players send in bids
Bob - 300
Larry - 201
Susan - 99
Jessie - 205
This time, Susan risked too low a bid, and gets eliminated, and Larry comes in second, and keeps his cash
Round 2 tallies
Bob - 546
Larry - 791
Jessie - 560
Round 3
Going into this one, Larry knows he can get away with spending more than Bob or Jessie, so he wagers pretty high
Bob - 335
Larry - 400
Jessie - 364
So Bob is out
Larry - 291
Jessie - 560
On Round 4, Jessie knows she can bid any number higher than 291 and win, so the game ends, Jessie is the winner.
Basic strategy then is if you spend to little your out, but you want to spend as little as possible so you have it to bid on later days and if you hit second place you gain the advantage of keeping your money. Not a deep strategy or heavy posting game, but it goes quick, and might work well as a companion to our other games, since you could probably knock out a 5-7 players game during registration phase for a mafia game or a night phase, etc. Very little posting involved, pretty straightforward, minimal time commitment for all involved.
Okay, who wants to give this a try? Probably aim to start
Players - 8
Hobo
Fox and Ravens
Kronin al'Sulc
Beetnemesis
?
Amys
LadyLorraine
Ranagrande
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Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
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The Coin Game (Ended)
21/09/2010 08:06:24 PM
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Round 1
23/09/2010 09:45:37 AM
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No restrictions eh?
23/09/2010 12:27:32 PM
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Doesn't seem any need
23/09/2010 01:24:22 PM
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You've clearly never learned to properly intimidate your players.
24/09/2010 02:49:42 AM
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Round 2
24/09/2010 12:58:31 AM
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Round 4
24/09/2010 11:49:05 PM
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Have I really been consistantly voting the highest number? arggh! *NM*
25/09/2010 02:43:51 AM
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Final Results
28/09/2010 02:22:36 PM
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Well that was fun.
28/09/2010 09:25:55 PM
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